Energy Group Leader
Role Overview
Leads the Energy Group across Western Canada, with a primary focus on Alberta and the Calgary market.
The group serves the Energy and Resources sector, including midstream and pipeline infrastructure, oil and gas, energy production and processing, industrial facilities, power and utilities, and transmission and distribution.
Adjacent growth markets include carbon capture, electrification, hydrogen and alternative fuels, renewable generation, energy storage and the broader energy transition.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads the Energy Group across Western Canada, with a primary focus on Alberta and the Calgary market.
The group serves the Energy and Resources sector, including midstream and pipeline infrastructure, oil and gas, energy production and processing, industrial facilities, power and utilities, and transmission and distribution.
Adjacent growth markets include carbon capture, electrification, hydrogen and alternative fuels, renewable generation, energy storage and the broader energy transition.
Leadership and strategy
- Set strategic direction and translate organizational priorities, market opportunities and client needs into business, capability and workforce plans.
- Establish an effective team structure and foster accountability, collaboration, inclusion, technical excellence and innovation.
- Champion safety, ethics, compliance and company values.
People and resource management
- Lead and support Team Leads and work with Discipline Leads on performance, career development, workforce planning and technical capability.
- Maintain succession plans; oversee development and mandatory training; support promotion, compensation and retention recommendations; and partner with Talent Acquisition on capability gaps.
- Forecast project demand, opportunity pipelines, resource supply, capability and recruitment needs.
- Coordinate across portfolio, group, division and regional leaders to optimize utilization, balance workloads and deploy staff effectively.
Technical excellence and operations
- Set expectations for technical quality and project delivery and champion standards, knowledge sharing, lessons learned, innovation and QA/QC.
- Support technical governance and consistent business management and delivery processes.
- Participate in divisional planning and operational reviews and monitor people, utilization, capability and delivery performance.
- Ensure compliance with corporate requirements, cascade decisions and support continuous improvement.
- Resolve resource, capability, quality and performance issues and help develop future leaders.
Success measures and leadership approach
- Success is assessed through resource performance, workforce readiness, employee development and retention, technical quality, operational compliance, cross-business collaboration and effective pursuit support.
- Work collaboratively across organizational boundaries and use sound judgment where accountabilities are shared.
- Prioritize long-term capability, workforce planning, recruitment and succession alongside technical excellence, delivery readiness and operational performance.
Work arrangement
- The posting lists Calgary, Canada as the location and describes the role as full time; it does not specify a workplace arrangement.
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